Hip Hip Hooray!
Members of the Greenwood family swim team. Hip Hip Hooray! (22 Sept 2024) I love cross country meets and I was sad to miss a meet this weekend due to a work trip. Rest assured I was cheering from afar! I like running, and I like cheering for runners, especially when those runners are my children! I think we all like to be cheered for, but not everyone likes a big fuss, or the limelight, for their accomplishments. Your great grandfather, Hans Eugene Nielsen is one of those people that didn’t like a big fuss. When he was in grade school he had a great idea/invention that allowed him to catch orders of magnitude more flies than anyone else at the school during the fly catching contest. He handily won the first place prize and his brother won the second place prize by bringing some jars of Eugene’s leftover dead flies. Young Eugene was excited to win first prize, a pocket watch, but he did not like what came next- the attention. His well-meaning teacher stood in front of the classroo...